Queen of Hearts

DESCRIPTION: "To the Queen of Hearts goes the Ace of sorrow... Young men are plenty but sweethearts few; If my love leaves me, what shall I do?" The singer talks of her wealth and family, "But I'll leave them all to go with you."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1905 (Baring-Gould/Sheppard-SongsOfTheWest2ndEd)
KEYWORDS: love courting family travel
FOUND IN: Britain(England(West))
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Baring-Gould/Sheppard-SongsOfTheWest2ndEd, #114, "The Queen of Hearts" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber/Silber-FolksingersWordbook, p. 153, "Queen of Hearts" (1 text)
DT, QUNHEART*
Roud #3195
BROADSIDES:
Murray, Mu23-y1:105, "The Wheel of Fortune," James Lindsay (Glasgow), 19C [extremely mixed, with the "Wheel of Fortune" verse, a thyme stanza, a bit of "Fair and Tender Ladies," a "Queen of Heart" verse, and more]
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "I Know My Love"
NOTES [37 words]: Baring-Gould/Sheppard-SongsOfTheWest2ndEd suggests that this has "a flavour of the period of Charles II." I see no reason for this speculation, and have encountered no hints of its existence before the nineteenth century. - RBW
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File: FSWB153

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